The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1887-04-28
MEANNESS IN GIVING REWARDS.
A London Correspondent Mentions Sew
eral Rather Interestinp Cases.

A London Correspondent Mentions Sew
eral Rather Interesting Cases.
I think I read somewhere of Robert
Burns making remark about a mans
meanness in the reward business. If
remember rightly, a canny Scot, who
had not been as canny about his steps as
with his cash, fell off the pier at Greenock.
A Greenockite fshed him out, and was
rewarded by shilling. From my expe-
rience with the climate of Greenock I
would say that it didn't make much
difference to person whether he was in
the water or on what they sarcastically
call the ''dry'' land there; yet the rescuer
growled a little about the meagerness of
the reward. "It's all right said Burns
(or words to that effect), "the gentleman
best knows his own value" heard of
a rich and pious man in Detroit who lost
his pocketbook, containing good deal Of
wealth, and when bright young fellow
returned it said, "God bless you, my
boy, heaven will reward your honesty"
"That's all right" answered the boy;
"but if you like to pay cash down I'll
make a large reduction on the celestial
order" The rich man rebuked his flip
pancy and irreverence by giving him
nothing. A Windsor (Canada) man
whom I know very well lost a pocket
book that contained his card and $56.
A laboring man brought it to his Office.
My friend spread the bills out, and said
to the man, "How much is it worth to
return that cash to me?'' "Oh, don't
know answered the finder. "Well, I
consider it's worth whatever amount OF
money you like to take out Of that pile.
Whatever is left is my gain, for I never
expected to seeit again. Help yourself. !"
The man, with some reluctance, took out
one of the So bills. els that too much?"
he asked. "No, it's too little" Say
another dollar, them "Better take the
even $6, and leave me the even $50" So
on that basis it was satisfactorily settled
While on this subject I may mention
an item that appeared the other day in
The Belfast Morning News. The London
correspondent of that paper said that in
1921 an Irish soldier, named Moloney,
saved the life of little girl 2 years old.
That little girl afterwards became queen
of England. The Belfast News gives the
following particulars: "He was walking
near the carriage in which the infant
princess was driving, and when the car
riage was upset he rushed to the child g
rescue, and brought her safely out of the
broken vehicle. He broke his leg, how
ever, in the attempt, and sustained other
injuries, from which he suffered for some
time afterwards. The duchess of Kent,
the queens mother, gave him the reward
of 81 for his heroic act. In few years
he was sent out to India with his regi-
ment, and there he spent upwards Of
twenty years, returning to England a
pensioner on sixpence day. Being in
great distress -sixpence day being un-
able to maintain the poor fellow-he
wrote to her majesty, reminding her of
the important service he had rendered to
her in early life.
No notice whatever was taken of the
application. Nothing daunted, however,
he wrote again and again, but still nc
response came from Windsor. To shorten
the story, he kept reminding her majesty
for nearly twenty years that he had saved
her life, and as he was beginning to think
at last that he could never succeed ir
exciting the royal gratitude to do any
thing for him, he received through the
post small donation anonymously. The
following week it was repeated. Upor
the introduction of postal orders he go
one for 81 almost every week, the dono1
being still nameless. As the orders
however, bore the Windsor postmark, HI
suspected the source whence they came
At last one day a slip Of paper, which
appeared to have been put into the lettel
accidently, revealed the name OF tn
sender Sir Henry Ponsonby, the queen
private secretary. Luke Sharp in De
troit Free Press,